Thursday 25th September 2008 · The City of Manchester Stadium
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Thursday 25th September 2008 · The City of Manchester Stadium
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| 9.15am | Exhibition opens |
| 9.30am CONCHANGO |
AGILE TESTING (GUIDELINES FOR TESTERS IN AGILE TESTING PROJECTS)
With Martin Overare, Senior Technical Consultant |
| 10am BCS ISEB |
THE VALUE OF SOFTWARE TESTING CERTIFICATION
Professional certification has become an integral part of the skills development and validation process for IT related companies and their customers. In today's competitive business environment, questions are being raised about the integrity and value of certification. This presentation by international account manager Simon Adams will allay any fears you may have and explain why certification is necessary in today's software testing environment. |
| 10.40am ITRINEGY |
WITHOUT A REALISTIC ENVIRONMENT, SOFTWARE TESTING IS MEANINGLESS
Today applications are required to work in all types of networks (WAN, Wireless, Satellite etc) so if your testing procedures don't include checking how software functions and performs in these environments, how can you say that you are doing your job properly! Frank Puranik will first explain how networks can influence the way in which applications perform and why testing in WAN/Wireless environments is so important. He will go on to outline how you can now affordably create authentic WAN conditions and offer realistic WAN software performance testing in the lab or even from the comfort of your own desk. |
11.10am |
MADE TO MEASURE
People don't all have the same shape, and neither do applications that require performance testing. This presentation by Ian Parker will show how tailored additions to Facilita's load and performance toolset can produce the most cost-effective solution. |
| 12 noon ORIGINAL SOFTWARE |
BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE GREAT SOFTWARE TESTING SWINDLE
For many reasons, full automation is often not the answer to your testing problems. You may have very heavily tested, complex business-critical applications where the prospect of full automation is simply too daunting; you may be approaching testing for the first time, or you may simply find automation not appropriate or to difficult to make successful. Historically there has been no sensible alternative to full automation - it has been "all or nothing"...until now. Find out how you can make remarkable savings in time, cost and resource initially without automation, and at the same time start to progressively build an automation strategy at your own pace. With George Wilson, operations director |
| 12.30pm EMPIRIX |
TESTING PSYCH: WHO CARES AND HOW CAN YOU TELL?
During the SDLC the perception of testing can vary tremendously, from 'not needed' to 'please help us!'. How can you properly address upcoming issues before they become critical if the key stakeholders in your own company have a vested interest in ignoring quality issues? The strategic use of presentations and reviews may not cut it. In this presentation Fowad Minhas, head of testing at LBi, will look at some of the more common issues and mistakes made in software test planning as it relates to testing in time and with the proper resources. The presentation will also use examples from LBi's broad customer base to illustrate both successful and unsuccessful testing strategies - and how to increase the likelihood of staff retention in a less than enlightened technical infrastructure. It will explain how to assess and mitigate risk on a project and where to leave it and how to effectively deploy resources (physical, logical, human) to get the most out of your testing, and look at illustrative results of improper strategies to help you make the business case in your organization. |
| 1.10pm TESTHOUSE |
TESTING AT MICROSOFT
Microsoft employs nearly thirty thousand software engineers worldwide with test engineers making up over seven thousand of that number. Their products span a wide range of categories including consumer electronics, desktop applications and servers so as a result there is no single "Microsoft" way to test. There are however many common and some mandatory practices. This session with technical consultant Richard Erwin will give an overview of how Microsoft tests today and where it is headed. |
| 1.40pm SEAPINE SOFTWARE |
BUILDING A QUALITY-READY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
Software quality and reliability are lifelines to customer loyalty, and to your profitability. A quality-ready development organization is focused on quality assurance, through the execution of a development strategy that creates a sustainable quality-advantage, resulting in value for both the customer and the organization. The American Society of Quality (ASQ) defines quality assurance as "the planned and systematic activities implemented in a quality system so that quality requirements for a product or service will be fulfilled". The quality-ready development organization delivers on this definition by profitably designing, developing, testing, and delivering quality software applications on time and within budget. Are you building a quality-ready development environment? During this session technical consultant Gerhard Krüger will cover the use of software quality as a competitive advantage, success factors and technologies for building a quality-ready development organization and examples and recommendations from the Seapine Software Quality-Ready Assessment study. |
| 2.10pm COMPUWARE |
TESTERS FIND A NEW CAREER! COMPUTERS CAN NOW WRITE AND EXECUTE TESTS THEMSELVES
The holy grail is found. We can now generate our tests automatically from our documented requirements. This isn't magic, it's a consequence of structured or action/use case based requirements definition. Of course it's not quite that simple. Technology manager Gordon Alexander discusses the value and limitations of structured requirements in reducing the effort required to construct our tests while at the same time increasing their quality and business alignment. |
| 2.40pm APPLABS |
TEST EXECUTION: THAT'S THE EASY PART
Testing requires many different skills so being a test consultant is a challenging role. For a team to succeed, diversity of its members is imperative. With Tim Durham, Principal Consultant |
| 3pm THE QBIT KEYNOTE |
TestExpo will conclude with a brand new keynote presentation from vulnerability testing expert Dr Andrew Blythe who will explore roles that professionalism and academia have traditionally played in IA testing, focusing in particular on the need for independence and the part that universities have played. He will also discuss how the role of government has changed in this area and how various new initiatives are now starting to bear fruit.
Dr Blyth received his PhD In Computer Science in 1995. He is currently head of the Information Security Research Group at the University of Glamorgan. Over the past five years he has advised industry and government (via the GIPSI initiative) on how it can engage with academia and how academia can engage with it. He has also been responsible for a number of initiatives in this area including the development of core curriculums. |
| 4.30pm | Exhibition closes |